How to format your references using the Journal of the American Heart Association citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA). For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

McGowan K. Masterclass: The gathering brainstorm. Nature. 2011;478:S19-20.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hemmer P, Wrachtrup J. Physics. Where is my quantum computer? Science. 2009;324:473–474.

A journal article with 3 authors

Prasanth SG, Prasanth KV, Stillman B. Orc6 involved in DNA replication, chromosome segregation, and cytokinesis. Science. 2002;297:1026–1031.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fricke C, Lee JS, Geiger-Rudolph S, Bonhoeffer F, Chien CB. astray, a zebrafish roundabout homolog required for retinal axon guidance. Science. 2001;292:507–510.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Walkenbach J. Excel® VBA Programming For Dummies®. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Calderwood SK, ed. Cell Stress Proteins. New York, NY: Springer; 2007: 1-XVI, 460 p. 38 illus., 11 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

Aerts R, Cornelissen JHC, Dorrepaal E. Plant performance in a warmer world: general responses of plants from cold, northern biomes and the importance of winter and spring events. In: Rozema J, Aerts R, Cornelissen H, eds. Plants and Climate Change. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006: 65–78.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Journal of the American Heart Association.

Blog post

Andrew E. Exomoons Might Be The Secret To Alien Life. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/space/exomoons-might-be-secret-alien-life/. Accessed October 30, 2018.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. National Test Facility: Civilian Agency Use of Supercomputers Not Feasible. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Tan C. Conceptualizing Psychological History: Edgar Allan Poe and the Themes of the Normal and the Pathological, Life and Death. 2014.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Kelly M. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Political Week; Clinton Basks in Glow Of Easy Lead in Race. New York Times.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the American Heart Association
Abbreviation	J. Am. Heart Assoc.
ISSN (online)	2047-9980
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine